[caption id="attachment_55237567" align="alignnone" width="620"] Awateef Abu Malyana. Source: Ahmed El Amraoui[/caption]When Awateef Abu Malyana told her family about her wish to become a journalist,…

[caption id="attachment_55237508" align="alignnone" width="620"] Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Source: David Levenson/Getty Images[/caption] [inset_left]Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb Allen Lane/Penguin…

[caption id="attachment_55237272" align="alignnone" width="620"] Artists protest against the recent crackdowns on artistic freedoms in Egypt. Source: Ati Metwaly[/caption]On 13 December 2012, a large…

[caption id="attachment_55237195" align="alignnone" width="620"] Supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party wave flags and hold up a poster of Abdullah Öcalan as they attend the party’s…

[caption id="attachment_55237136" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian Coptic Christian women attend Christmas midnight mass led by Pope Tawadros II late on 6 January 2013. Source: KHALED DESOUKI…

[caption id="attachment_55237101" align="alignnone" width="620"] Samar Yazbek in Saint Malo, France.[/caption] [inset_right]A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution Samar Yazbek…

[inset_left]The Colonel Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Haus Publishing 1 July 2011[/inset_left] At nearly 73 years of age, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is one of the most famous Iranian novelists. Some critics have…

[caption id="attachment_55236932" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Pro-Israel, anti-Iran protesters demonstrate near the Israeli embassy on September 27, 2012 in New York City (SOURCE: Spencer Platt…

[caption id="attachment_55236911" align="alignnone" width="620"] Circa 1545, Sulayman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey (1494–1566), Ottoman Emperor. Also known as Sulayman the Law Giver. Source:…

[caption id="attachment_55236645" align="alignnone" width="620"] From the series 'Mothers of Martyrs' by Newsha Tavakolian, 2006[/caption] Rock the Kasbah is a series of street-scene photographs by…